Former Harvard Pres., Summers, slams DJT [View all]
'Lawrence Summers, the former Harvard University president and former US treasury secretary, has issued a sharp statement criticizing Donald Trump’s attacks against the university.
'In a post on X, Summers wrote:
"I could have never conceived that the US President would be far more aggressive against a great university than he would be against a Russian dictator engaged in invading a US ally.
"Why is it smart to starve cancer research, students on financial aid, innovation in public education and brilliant young people whose dream was to come to America while holding out the prospect of business deals to Vladimir Putin? I cannot imagine."
'His comments came after the Trump administration directed federal agencies to cancel all government contracts with Harvard University worth an estimated $100m. Summers continued:
"Totalizing efforts at destruction are never legal in America, and doing vast damage beyond their object is a reason the founding fathers separated powers.
"The judiciary has to stop the overreach and support the reasonable enforcement of law with regard to Harvard and many other places."
[Reported by Lucy Campbell, The Guardian, 5/28/25]
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